On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, maxime bizon wrote:

> We want to build a fast file server and we would like
> some help about the hardware.
>
> We would like to buy the newest scsi drive but it seems
> every hard drive are now Ultra 160, so is there any scsi
> card supported by Netbsd that support this type ?
>

Check your hardware before buying:

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/~checkout~/syssrc/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC?rev=1.408?content-type=text/plain

> About the hard drive itself it seems that Seagate new
> Cheetah (15000 rpm) are the fastest one, but it's an
> Ultra 160... any suggestion about a very fast scsi harddrive
> that could word on netbsd ?

15,000? Sounds like fun.  Be sure to buy lots of fans.  You migh also
consider RAID if this application is mission critial.

>
> Thanks in advance
>
> --
> Maxime Bizon
> Etudiant InfoSpe
> EPITA, France
>
>

--Brian

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